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SongBook Chordpro app for iPhone and iPad


4.8 ( 608 ratings )
Productivity Music
Developer: LinkeSOFT GmbH
14.99 USD
Current version: 5.8, last update: 6 months ago
First release : 02 Oct 2010
App size: 9.71 Mb

Great for professional and amateur musicians alike, SongBook manages your song collections with lyrics and chords. Tap on any chord name to see its variants. Comes with comprehensive, extensible chord libraries for many instruments like guitar, ukulele, banjo and piano.

The original SongBook app, continuously developed since 2011.

Tons of features: transpose songs, auto-zoom, auto-scrolling, metronome, external display, pedal support and much more.

Manage big song collections: sort songs in categories, filter by tags, or define playlists (sets) for performances.

Based on the popular chordpro format, also supports tab/crd files.

Fully offline capable, no Internet connection required. Optional Dropbox/Google Drive/MS OneDrive/Nextcloud sync. Play Together feature.

Please refer to our web site for the full documentation with screenshots and demo videos.

Pros and cons of SongBook Chordpro app for iPhone and iPad

SongBook Chordpro app good for

good app, but still full of bugs - when is synchronized with dropbox, you cant add a playlist from ipad
Works perfectly in conjunction with computer app , easy to edit, write chords and lyrics ,once edited on computer the app is automatically updated on your up which you can edit and it updates on a cloud device such Dropbox. Very user friendly. Awesome app.
I have been waiting a long time for an app like this. Its an amazing way to organize lyrics for jamming. I love: -ability to pull down lyrics and chords from the net (bing works way better) -transpose on the fly -chord charts on the fly with ability to edit and build new ones -metronome for automatic scrolling Etc......... The app functions could be described better in the guide, but with Agee clarifications from their email support, I figured out how to delete songs, multiple categorize, etc. Al in all, best app I have on my iPad. I hope they continue to update and improve. Well worth the money.
This app is incredibly versatile and intuitive. The songwriting tool is amazing and the chord charts will change the way you write songs! Now all it needs is a rhyming dictionary and it will be the ultimate :P
it is a good concept I have yet to use it live I need more time to convert my extensive song collection to chord pro I wish there was a fast way to do this task so far so good
This app I exactly what I was looking for. I jam regularly with friends and this app allows us to get rid of the big binder of songs that we carry around. Now we can all share the same songs using Drop box and when somebody has a new song we all have it! Wonderful app.

Some bad moments

Exported PDF files from Guitar Pro are always in portrait orientation. But, its too small to read on the iPad Air in portrait position. I can display my PDF files in SongBook with the iPad in landscape position. I see half of a page, text is bigger... its ok. But when I use my Airturn Ped pedal, instead of showing me the second half of the page, SongBook switches to the next page... and its unusable. :-( Could you try to improve this ? (making my airturn show the previous/next half of the page, and turn the page when necessary) That would be so great !
I had high hopes for this app and picked it over OnSong mainly due to the on screen chord bar, user entered chord patterns and a couple other interface issues I thought might be an advantage. Unfortunately, this app was such a letdown on the way it handles imports of tab files I went back and bought OnSong less than 2 hours later. The problem is that I have a substantial library of tab song sheets (chords above lyrics)not the Chordpro format (chords in [G] format inserted within the lyrics). Songbook will open them but it screws up the chord placement dramatically so that the chords are way off where they should be above the lyrics below. Furthermore, it doesnt recognize the chords as chords, just lyrics so no chord features like diagrams, formatting or transposing are available. OnSong on the other hand imports my files almost perfectly and recognizes the cords in the proper location. OnSong doesnt have a couple of the features in SongBook like swipe to next song, the chord bar at bottom of screen but if it comes to pretty much redoing 400 odd songs Ill give up a couple little features that I can probably live without vs a better import function. Autoscroll works well I both apps as does metronome, play along, cataloging etc etc. in e end I would have been happy with this app if its import function was anywhere as good as its competition when it comes to regular song tabs. You can find free converter programs online like Songsheet Generator and it does a pretty decent job of converting tab to chordpro, not perfect but decent. This beggs the question, if Songsheet Generator can do this why cant Songbook? Impliment this feature and this app would be #1 IMO.
There is a conflict as it will grab documents from your e-mail and it does not let you choose Pages. As well, inserting chord names into song lyrics manually is very difficult; the brackets that you have to select to do so are very small and really hard to use on a touch screen. Overall, a waste of money. This my last use of the application before I delete it!
Wish could get money back - Songsterr is by far a much better product with huge library of music that you can easily add to favs with chord&player view!
Functionally its not worth the money at all. The total mockery is the Mac version. There are lots of free, more featured apps, and if you wanna spend a penny look at OnSong.
Not user friendly. Very difficult to get songs in. Do not buy